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== '''A Biographical Account of the Author, on A TREATISE OF THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD.''' '''William Gurnall, M.A.''' ''By the Rev.
A TREATISE OF THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD.''' '''William Gurnall, M.A.''' ''By the Rev. J. C. RYLE, B.A. Oxon.,'' ''Vicar of Stradbroke, Suffolk.'' ==
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For my own, part, I can only say that I read everything I can get hold of which professes to throw light on my Master's business, and the work of Christ among men. But the more I read, the less I admire modern theology. The more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writing. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems,' as they are called, which, to my mind, stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy. I find more of definite soul-satisfying thought in one page of Gurnall than in five pages of such books as the leaders of the so-called 'Broad Church School' put forth. In matters of theology 'the old is better.'
